Learning Analytics: Making learning better? Slides for a talk at Bett 2015, London, Fri 23 January, as part of the LACE project (www.laceproject.eu) This panel discussion starts with a short introduction to learning analytics and educational data mining, highlighting how European schools are using different types of data to help support, manage and predict learning outcomes. It includes viewpoints from national school networks in the Nordic countries and the Netherlands, a research input from the European Commission supported LACE project highlighting research on the use of learning analytics and an expert input on ethical and privacy issues in the application of learning analytics. Participants will be encouraged to share their views and where interested to join the growing LACE Community

1. Learning Analytics:
Making learning better?
Dr Doug Clow
Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK
@dougclow
dougclow.org
doug.clow@open.ac.uk

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3. What is learning analytics?
• the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of
data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of
understanding and optimising learning and the
environments in which it occurs
– First International Conference on Learning Analytics And Knowledge (LAK11), Banff, Alberta, Feb 27-
Mar 1, 2011
Photo (CC)-BY Cris: http://flickr.com/photos/chrismatos/6917786197/

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- Erik Duval
http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/learning-
analytics-and-educational-data-mining/
“collecting traces
that learners leave
behind and using
those traces to
improve learning”

5. “feeding back the
data exhaust”
Big Data in
Education
Photo (CC)-BY Iain Watson http://www.flickr.com/photos/dagoaty/3329699788/

6. Clow, LAK12, 2012

7. examples

8. School dashboards (Google Images)
• Maybe chop the first slide about this.
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9. Dispositions analytics
• Learning dispositions
• ‘Learning power’:
Effective Lifelong
Learning Inventory
• “A framework for a
coaching conversation
which moves between
identity and
performance”
• Schools to
Graduate schools
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Buckingham Shum and Deakin Crick, 2012 (LAK12)

10. ELLI
Teacher view
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Buckingham Shum and Deakin Crick, 2012 (LAK12)

11. what else could you do?

12. What data do we have about learners?
• Demographics
• Previous educational experience
• Grades, scores, achievements, struggles
• Attendance, location, gaze
• Software logs
• Online tracking
• Other online activity (tracking)
• … more every week.
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Photo (CC)-BY-SA AJ Cann https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajc1/15574010080/

13. What can we do with that data?
• Identify learners who need help
– Simple or predictive
• Trigger interventions
– Via teacher, or direct
• Learn which interventions work
• Build a complete cognitive learning system
• Suggest resources or source of help
– Learners like you found this helpful
– This person might be able to help you
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Photo (CC)-BY-NC Pulpolux https://www.flickr.com/photos/pulpolux/8735428280

14. what should we do?

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control
Photo (CC)-BY Andy Roberts https://www.flickr.com/photos/aroberts/3035796
surveillance

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support
Photo (CC)-BY-NC-SA Drew Bennett https://www.flickr.com/photos/abennett96/2710211041
guidance

17. Glasswinged butterfly, ? Greta oro
Photo (CC)-BY-NC-ND by Greg Foster on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregfoster/3365801458/
Principles
• Privacy
• Data
protection
• Ethics
• Transparency

18. www.laceproject.eu
Learning Analytics Community Exchange (FP7)
• Coordination and Support
• Evidence Hub
• Events
• Publications, briefings, webinars

19. Thanks to:
People:
• LACE at the OU: Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Cross, Linda Norwood Michelle
Bailey, Rebecca Wilson, Evaghn De Souza, Natalie Eggleston, Oliver
Millard, Gary Elliot-Citigottis,
• LACE project partners: CETIS (Bolton), OUNL, Skolverket, HIOA,
Kennisnet, ITS, ATiT.
• The learning analytics community, including SoLAR, IEDMS, those I’ve met
at LAK and LASI
Funders:
• LACE: European Commission 619424-FP7-ICT-2013-11

20. “Learning Analytics: Making Learning Better?” by Doug Clow,
Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University,
was presented at Bett, London, on 23 January 2015.
@dougclow
dougclow.org
doug.clow@open.ac.uk
This work was undertaken as part of the LACE Project, supported by the European Commission Seventh
Framework Programme, grant 619424.
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